Graduate Student Senate

Graduate College Mini-Grants

Bonnie Cantrell. “A Neuroepigenomic Investigation of DNA Methylation in Cattle with Extreme Measures of Docility” Monday, January 14, 2019. San Diego, CA.
Kevin Fischer. “Dynamic nature of the particle phase for select green leaf volatile derived secondary organic aerosol” American Chemical Society, August 27, 2019. San Diego, CA.
Berke Tinaz. "Evolution of the LATD/NIP meristem function in roots and nodules" American Society of Plant Biology Annual Meeting. August 4, 2019. San Jose, CA.
Aayudh Das. “Testing the influence of extrinsic vs. intrinsic factors on the evolution of grass stress tolerance” American Society of Plant Biology Annual Meeting. July 15, 2018. Montreal, Canada.

Mini Grants are awarded by the Graduate College to students presenting their scholarly work at conferences or meetings. Graduate students can receive up to $300 in travel and conference reimbursements. Mini Grant applications may be submitted at any point prior to the travel for which funding is requested. The Graduate Student Senate Finance Committee reviews applications one week after the application deadline.

2019-2020 application deadlines are as follows:

Conference Date	Application Deadline
September 2019 - January 2020	September 20, 2019
February 2020 - May 2020	January 17, 2020
June 2020 - August 2020	April 24, 2020

*All applications are due at 4:00pm EST on the due date.

Guidelines

Applications must include, in addition to the forms, an abstract of the paper/poster, a copy of the meeting announcement (or similar), and a copy of the applicant's curriculum vitae. Additional materials may be attached where deemed appropriate by the applicant. Requests that do not include all required materials will not be considered.

• Applicants MUST have presented a poster or an oral presentation as a first author at one of the previously sanctioned Student Research Conferences in order to be eligible for a Mini-Grant. To clarify, this means that anyone who wants to apply for the 2019-2020 grant cycle will have to have presented at any previous conference up to the most recent conference (April 2019). Note: The April 2019 conference will count for the April 26th, 2019 deadline. Please see the Student Research Conference website for more information.
• Mini-Grant applicants must be presenting a poster or an oral presentation as a first author at the conference for which they are applying for funding. Workshops will not be funded.
• Priority will be given to first time applicants.
• Applicants may receive up to one award per year (e.g.,if you received an award in either the September 2019 or April 2019 grant cycle, you are ineligible for mini-grants during the January 2020 cycle).
• All materials must be included with the initial application as described in the directions. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

More instructions and additional guidelines can be found in the application link below.

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